Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difference between a Brooks House Christmas party and the ordinary social work done by the committee, according to PBH secretary, Charles W. Duhig '29, is largely in the source of the children entertained. Usually parties and instruction groups take place in settlement houses in the poorer districts of Boston, Cambridge, and surrounding areas. Because of this, a great number of poor Cambridge gamins, many of whom are children of parents on relief, and who do not belong to one of the settlement houses, go without holiday celebrations...
...between the halves. There is, of course, something to the theory that the team which is up for the game plays better than it ordinarily does. But we feel that this point is over-emphasized, and that 49 times out of 50 the fundamentally sound team will beat the poorer...
Action on the plan began immediately with government officials drawing up necessary legislation, and the United Nations making provision to include American aid in its own plans for poorer nations. Several bills have been passed this session for increased appropriations to the U.N. for use in its economic assistance programs, but it was not until September that the main legislation went to Congress...
...million Britons, 900,000 Belgians, 400,000 Swiss, 150,000 Scandinavians and 90,000 Spaniards. The 200,000 from the U.S., however, had left some $78 million behind to provide France with her biggest single chunk of hard currency outside the Marshall Plan. The 1949 American tourists were younger, poorer and more serious-minded than before, but Paris' barmen happily reported that they still outdrank everyone else, with the Swedes and Britons running second and third. And just to prove that there were still 100% Americans in the crowd, there were some, groaned the weekly Samedi-Soir in feigned...
...twice a week the way you do, I'd be as strong as you are." From that time on, Albert's broth stuck in his throat. He was punished repeatedly because he refused to accept such advantages as an everyday overcoat, new gloves, or leather shoes, which poorer boys did not have...